Description

By Jacopo D'Andria Ursoleo, Kate Gralton

This is a new resource for teaching and learning English for use in a medical setting. It contains 13 learning units, each focused on a medical specialty. The units include a series of activities to reinforce language learning. It features a visual atlas of the human body with anatomical structures in English. The digital version includes English audio tracks for the activities and a series of additional exercises. It also provides access to the Voicebooks platform, a complementary tool for improving English listening and comprehension skills. In the era of globalization, English has become an indispensable and predominant language for scientific and medical communication internationally. Much of the research, studies, and protocol updates are published in English, so mastering the language will allow professionals to stay up-to-date with the latest advances and practices in their field. Medical and Scientific English is aimed at students and professionals in Medicine, Nursing, Dentistry, and any other Health Sciences degree who use English and want to improve their language skills in the healthcare sector. The digital version of this publication includes supplementary material that will facilitate understanding of the content. It features: Audio recordings that help students develop their medical English listening skills and are related to: Exercises specific to the lessons. Exercises for preparing for official Cambridge Assessment English exams. Additional exercises and answer keys beyond those included in the printed book. Access to Voicebooks: a platform with 13 units aligned with the book's theoretical content. Listen to a sentence, type what you understand on the platform, and the platform will help you reconstruct the complete sentence word by word. This way, you will assess your listening and word-decoding skills.